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Kevin and Scotty kiss and make up

I was REAL curious to see where the Kevin and Scotty storyline would go this week on ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters” after last week’s big kiss. I thought, they’re gonna chicken out, the network or the producers or the advertisers will not let this relationship advance.
I remembered years past and how the networks had handled similar situation. They’d give us a little romance then pull the plug before things got good.
Steven Carrington was unapologetically gay during the first season of “Dynasty” and his father killed his lover! As the year’s went on, he fathered a baby and married two different women! Finally he ends up with Luke (the gorgeous Billy Campbell) only to have Luke killed off in the infamous Moldavia massacre. Then of course there was Matt Fielding on “Melrose Place” who used to routinely hug his boyfriends goodnight (you hug bad dates goodnight, not your boyfriend) and when Matt finally does lick his lips and prepare for a well-publicized smackaroo, FOX got cold feet and rather than show the kiss, cut away to Billy’s reaction when Matt kissed his previously-thought-to-be-straight best friend from high school.
Kerr Smith’s character of Jack McPhee on “Dawson’s Creek” seemed to be allowed only one on-screen kiss per season with plenty of build-up to the big moment. The kisses were always a little G-rated but still somewhat romantic.
Considering such scant gay romance in network television’s past, the relationship developing between Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke MacFarland) on “Brothers & Sisters” is nothing short of revolutionary. Not only did these two handsome characters share another sexy kiss Sunday night, but it came pretty much without warning during a gala dinner Scotty was working at (as a waiter) and Kevin was attending with his family. Earlier, attorney Kevin had offered to pay Scotty his salary if he would forgo working and be his guest instead. Insulted, Scotty stormed out of their lunch.
Kevin proceeds to slowly get drunk at the gala and asks various people if what he did was insulting. When they say it was, he sees Scotty’s point and tracks him down in the kitchen of the hotel:
Kevin: I never get this way. I never lose control over anybody.
Scotty: I’m supposed to be flattered!
Kevin: YES! Would you please forgive me so I can stop getting drunk? I promise I’ll never offer to pay for anything again – not a dinner or a movie, not even a parking ticket.
Scotty: OK! Enough! I forgive you.
Kevin: Really?

Scotty answers with a kiss – a good one. That is until his boss interrupts and promptly fires him. Kevin smoothes it over though and at the end of the episode, when the family is dancing, Kevin and Scotty were doing a slow dance along with the rest.
As it should be.